Speech and Language Therapist: Paediatric Respiratory & Asthma

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With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We are seeking a dynamic Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (SPL) for this exciting role within the West London Children's Healthcare Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Asthma Service. The service provides multi-disciplinary care for babies, children and young people with complex respiratory conditions.

You will be part of the multi-disciplinary team delivering this service, contributing your expert assessment, intervention and advice to the diagnostic process and patient pathway.

This will include SLT outpatient clinics e.g. VFSS, and multi-disciplinary clinics for this cohort of patients. The role is based at St Mary's Hospital and will work across WLCH sites.

Working with the Clinical Lead for Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Asthma, Clinical Lead Paediatric SLT and the wider Multi Disciplinary Team , you will be responsible for developing the service, promoting a learning culture, supervising and developing staff, enabling delivery of a service that is informed by best evidence and expert knowledge.

You will have opportunities to lead on both discipline specific and inter-professional development projects, demonstrating your leadership and innovation.

If you have clinical expertise within children's paediatric respiratory care, have proven leadership experience, are innovative with enthusiasm for development, and an ability to think creatively, this could be your next opportunity.

Main duties of the job

• To provide comprehensive and specialist therapy assessment and diagnosis for patients with a range of highly complex presentations, by utilising advanced clinical reasoning, evidence-based knowledge, investigative and analytical skills and specialist assessment techniques.
• To work both independently and within a team structure, demonstrating leadership to manage own and team caseload. To efficiently manage a caseload and organise this effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
• To formulate and deliver an individualised and specialist care plan / therapy management programme based on advanced knowledge of evidence based practice, advanced clinical reasoning skills and a wide range of specialist treatment options. As a specialist clinician to provide a second opinion where required.
• To provide clarity and communicate complex clinical findings to the patient/carers to gain valid informed consent, prior to any intervention. To work within a legal framework for those patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
• To communicate with patients in a way that empowers them to make informed choices about the management of their condition and engages them in the planning and delivery of treatment.
• To take into account cultural, linguistic, medical, emotional, psychological and physical factors that may prevent this engagement and utilise resources available to facilitate communication

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environme